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What kind of studio space do artists require? Traditionally the answer was simple: a big, airy space with north facing windows and affordable. WASPS, a Scottish based charity, aim to provide such spaces and they were in Stirling last week […]

My interim exhibition is now on at Airspace Gallery in the window space. The show includes a selection of works made so far on my Graduate Residency here at Airspace, giving a taster of the works to come. The show […]

Arriving at the Cylinders Estate; the location of Kurt Schwitters Merz Barn in Cumbria, last Monday was like entering a little bubble. A bubble where life is simple and pure. Fellow artist Alana Tyson and I were to be artists-in-residence […]

This month I began my residency with Bank Street Arts. The first thing on my to do list is to raise my target of £650 to get the project under way, so I’ve launched a crowd funding appeal with Indigogo […]

Following last weeks exciting meeting at Portway, I have been going through my ideas and trying to build them together to create lesson plans for the 5 weeks with the children. I know that until I meet the children and […]

Yesterday I made a journey. Abuela helped me pack. Taking a very sandy Sand Cake made from a recipe card given to me by Kate Murdoch https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/keeping-it-going-1 felt very important. I would have liked to pack one of my sand […]

“I approach new projects with an attitude of openness and a willingness to embrace my own ignorance, a recognition of my own stupidity” John Wynne sound artist At the end of last month, I went to see photographer Peter Sanders […]

It was predictable really… A basic character flaw. Although I spent a whole day in the studio last week, with the explicit idea that I should sort materials and equipment for the coming couple of weeks when I wouldn’t be […]

This week ended with my first meeting at Portway Junior School, with the head teacher, Tim Deery and the head of arts, Millie Southway, so I spent the week preparing for this by creating some hand outs to take with […]

Yesterday, setting up the feathers, was an interesting experience. I had thought about this project for so long,and planned the installation, but when it was time to start hanging the feathers,I felt very nervous. The intention was to hang each […]

I got to an interesting point during the summer where my painting was moving on. My tutor had encouraged me to be more confident and I’d begun making stronger and more simplified marks with paint. A pause from painting during […]

This is the sort of project I love; concerns from my existing practice colliding with an external provocation (in this case, to respond to the collection of Maidstone Museum) to trigger a new idea. I’ve chosen to re-imagine what a […]